The apple of my iPad

Emma Cook with her three children Louis, Amelia and Evie and their Apple devices. Photo: Linda Nylind

Emma Cook writes about her young family's fixation with the world of iPads and iPods (Should we fear the iNanny?, Family, 27 April), and I can well understand it. My toddler grandson Edward recently outgrew his cot, but the introduction of a bed meant he was free to wander around at unearthly times and wake mummy and daddy and brother Henry as the mood took him. A gate was introduced to the bedroom door, and there was much angry shouting and crying when he realised his early-hours activities were being curtailed. Then, at 3am, came his final throw of the dice. In a wonderful display of abject misery he flung himself against the bars and sobbed loudly: "I want to FaceTime grandpa!"Jonathan BussIpswich

• No doubt like many students of Glasgow School of Art I feel the world a less lively place upon reading of Graeme Gilmour's passing (Obituary, 27 April). His student sculptures were against po-facedness, and once during a student demo he warned me: "Don't shout 'Maggie-Maggie-Maggie! Out-Out-Out!' It's a cliche." Although, of course, he shared the sentiment.Professor Craig Richardson Charlbury, Oxfordshire

• At one time the claim to fame was to have been the first to hear the cuckoo (Letters, 29 April). Now I think it would be to have heard one at all. I've not heard one in Edenbridge for about four years.Val DissingtonEdenbridge, Kent

• The most insightful spellcheck correction I have come across (Letters, 27 April) changes "headteacher" to "heartache" and "Ofsted" to "foisted".Jane GoodwinOldham, Greater Manchester